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The Mount Olive College women's tennis team swept both singles and doubles play en route to a 9-0 victory over Lees-McRae College in Conference Carolinas action on Friday afternoon.
Mount Olive's (7-5, 4-3 CC) duo of Francesca Ceppi and Molly Lentini opened the match with a hard-fought 8-5 victory over Lees-McRae's tandem of Samantha Wohlers (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) and Hilary Lutz (Shelby, N.C.), before Roxanne Chouinard and Maite Belloso posted an 8-0 decision against Taylor Bost (Jefferson, Ga.) and Stevie Harrell (Morganton, N.C.) in the second flight.Samara Paldinho and Paulina Delgado gave Mount Olive a 3-0 advantage with an 8-0 victory in the third flight against LeeAnn Sullivan (Greensboro, N.C.) and Emily Jones (Leonardtown, Md.). Lentini defeated Wohlers, 6-3, 6-0 at No. 1 singles, as Ceppi clinched the team win for the Trojans with a 6-2, 6-1 decision against Lutz in the second flight.Chouinard posted a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Bost in the third flight, while Belloso defeated Harrell, 6-0, 6-0 at No. 4 singles. Delgado registered a 6-0, 6-0 win against Sullivan at No. 5 singles, as Nicole Karas earned a hard-fought 6-3, 6-3 victory over Jones in the sixth flight.on the men's side, Lees-McRae College freshman Taduez Poplawski (Asheville, N.C.) earned a hard-fought victory in the second singles flight on Friday afternoon, as the Mount Olive College men's tennis team posted an 8-1 victory over the Bobcats in Conference Carolinas action.Mount Olive's (10-1, 6-0 CC) tandem of Edgar Bub and Rik Wolthuis kicked off the day with an 8-3 victory over Lees-McRae's (0-9, 0-5 CC) duo of Joao Araujo (Curitiba, Puerto Rico) and Carlos Pinel (Vitoria, Espírito Santo, Brazil), before Henric Falkenberg and Akio Mariano defeated Poplawski and Hang Lak Choi (Newton, N.C.), 8-2.Brahm Moolman and Gabriel Santana registered an 8-0 victory over Adam Chivers (Wilbraham, Mass.) and Jesse Artrip (Cleveland, Va.) in the third doubles flight, and after Bub defeated Araujo, 6-2, 7-6 in at No. 1 singles, Poplawski battled to a 7-5, 6-3 win against Santana in the second flight to give the Bobcats their first point of the day.Falkenberg would clinch the team victory for the Trojans in the third flight, posting a 6-1, 6-0 decision against Pinel, as Mariano defeated Choi, 6-1, 6-1 at No. 4 singles. Moolman and Jack Frampton closed out the day with a pair of 6-0, 6-0 victories over Artrip and Chivers, in the fifth and sixth flights, respectively.Lees-McRae returns to the courts on Saturday when the Bobcats travel to Wilson, N.C. to take on Barton College in league play at 1 p.m.